Ethnic category: 7100 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Throughout the world, cultural and racial clashes remain a major hurdle to development and progress. Though some areas are experiencing successful intercultural communications which pave the way for peaceful negotiations, there are still many regions experiencing severe turmoil. Impact of Communication...
Research and policy in ethnic relations
Compromised dynamics in a neoliberal era
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the field of ethnic relations the complex, often tortuous, interactions among academic researchers, research funders and those who use the research often result in social policy interventions that are poorly conceived and flawed in their implementation. In this unique book, the contributors seek...
by William Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Official statistics about ethnicity in advanced societies are no better than those in less developed countries. An open industrial society is inherently fluid, and it is as hard to interpret social class and ethnic groups there as in a nearly static community. In consequence, the collection and interpretation...
Ethnic Armies
Polyethnic Armed Forces from the Time of the Habsburgs to the Age of the Superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1990
Ethnic Armies is a combination of essays focused on the subject of polyethnic armed forces from the time of the Habsburgs to the age of the superpowers and is a publication of the proceedings of the thirteenth Military History Symposium, held at the Royal Military College of Canada in March 1986.
Multi-ethnic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This volume examines the role and representation of ‘race’ and ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United States. It highlights contemporary work that focuses on changing meanings of racial and ethnic identity as they are represented in the media; television and film, digital...
by Michael Banton
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Ethnic and Racial Consciousness is a completely revised version of the highly acclaimed first edition published in 1988. At that time no one expected the former Yugoslavia would break up with the brutal slaughter of neighbour by neighbour. Few would have predicted the horrific massacres in Rwanda...
Education and Racism
A Cross National Inventory of Positive Effects of Education on Ethnic Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
First published in 1999, this book gives an inventory of factors contributing to ethnic prejudice in seven countries and the role of formal education among them on the basis of national surveys. It appears that education is crucial in all the countries surveyed and contributes to more tolerant views...
by Eric J. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Can today's college students confront race relations issues directly and make positive changes? Yes, they can. This book provides students with a fresh, practical approach to address these serious issues—as individuals and as members of groups—and set off a new positive revolution in race and...
Shopping for Identity
The Marketing of Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 billion a year marketing the foods, clothing, objects, vacations,...
The Story of the Origins of the Bura/Pabir People of Northeast Nigeria
Language, Migrations, the Myth of Yamta-Ra-Wala, Social Organization and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A Synopsis of the Bura Project The three major rationale for writing this book are primarily to: through the study of African language family groups trace the origin of the tribe to a more specific location rather than the diffused response of from the East; secondly to investigate why and how the...
Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature
BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences?
Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks, Egyptians, and Ethiopians?
Looking at the neglected issue of race brings valuable new perspectives to the study of the ancient...
by Kalpana Jha
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and linguistic diversity of the country. It...
Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Ideally suited for high school and undergraduate students studying subjects such as anthropology, geography, and social studies, Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia provides clear, detailed, and up-to-date information on each major group in South Asian and Pacific Island countries,...
Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream
Shaping America's Immigration Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research...